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Andy Currier

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Program Coordinator ERI/UCLA

Andy Currier is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs with a concentration in Global Environment and Resources. A 2016 graduate of Colby College, Andy double majored in Environmental Policy and Government.

He is primarily interested in the intersection of climate change, land tenure and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and working to improve local community's control over development projects.

While at Colby he completed his honors thesis on data he helped collect in Kasungu, Malawi providing an overview of the tuberculosis health care system’s strengths and weaknesses and gaps between policy and practice. Andy co-founded CNU Malawi, a youth leadership organization that provides HIV education and leadership training to local villages and schools in 2007. He continues to serve as the Executive Director, overseeing the budget and coordinating outreach sessions with the Malawian Executive Board. In between Colby and UCLA, Andy worked as a Program Assistant for the USAID Bureau of Food Security Service Center. In his free time, Andy enjoys skiing, watching baseball and hiking with his Bernese Mountain dogs.

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The Earth is the birthright of all people

Earth Rights Institute (ERI) is designed to be an equilateral knowledge platform, where local people collaborate with academics and development professionals, both local and foreign, by exchanging skills, experiences, and knowledge to solve crucial development issues such as widespread poverty, land right disputes and environmental degradation.